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Ty's Take Three ballot questions running at once, a real estate win for the town, and the Rio Blanco Fire holding steady at 440 acres, and you've got a week where Pagosa's trying to build something while fire season breathes down its neck. The
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Ty's Take The Rio Blanco Fire south of town didn't wait for anyone to be ready, and that's the thing about living where we do. One minute you're thinking about the sanitation district's wastewater treatment plans and the next you&
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Ty's Take Between the evacuation order on Lower Blanco Road and the water district holding firm on Stage 2 restrictions, this week reminds us that living in the San Juans means managing real hazards alongside real scarcity. But look at what else is happening: families signing kids up
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Ty's Take Lifting Stage 2 fire restrictions down to Stage 1 is good news if you've got a grill you've been missing or a burn pile stacking up in the back forty, but it's the kind of decision that sits different when
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Ty's Take The county fair royalty got crowned last weekend, and if you've been around Archuleta long enough, you know those kids earned something real. This isn't the kind of title you get handed for showing up, not here. These are young people who&
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Ty's Take The library's switch from CloudLibrary to Hoopla is the kind of behind-the-scenes shuffle that doesn't make anyone's day, but it matters more than folks realize when you're trying to keep a small-town collection relevant and
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Ty's Take The broadband outage that knocked us offline this week was a reminder of how fast things have changed around here, and how much we've come to depend on it. Same week the town council moved to block new data centers with a two-year
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Ty's Take A horse came down with vesicular stomatitis virus somewhere in Archuleta County, which means every rancher and stable owner in these mountains just got a reminder that livestock diseases don't respect property lines or fence posts. The good news is this one's
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Ty's Take You can tell a lot about a town by where it decides to put its energy, and right now Archuleta County is wrestling with the fundamentals, the kind of unglamorous work that doesn't make the tourism brochures. The water conservancy district is talking ranch
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Ty's Take Highway 160 getting torn up for a week starting next Monday is the kind of thing that sounds like a minor inconvenience until you're sitting in your truck watching dust settle on both sides of the construction zone, watching the summer traffic back up
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Ty's Take There's something worth noticing in how a slow summer week in Pagosa shapes up—gardens and music festivals, comedy nights and teen programs, folks thinking about past lives and what a satisfied mind might look like. It's the kind of lineup that
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Ty's Take Wildfire season's still three months out and the smoke's already settling into the valley—which tells you something about what's burning up in the high country and how the wind's running these days. The county health folks are